A recent article in the Globe and Mail, Pink is the new crack, focused on a British campaign called Pinkstinks. Pinkstinks encourages Brits to boycott the purchase of over-the-top girly toys of the pink, princess, and fairy overload variety that currently inhabit the “pink alley” of toy stores. This was the first time I heard [...]
2009: The Year Of The Bad Mom Spectacular Spectacular (Did Someone Say MONTAGE?)
By on December 10, 2009 Leave a CommentGisele Bundchen Had A Baby. Don’t Cry For Her, Cindy Crawford
By on December 9, 2009 2 CommentsSo I was reading the other day about how Cindy Crawford wants to be a MILF (look it up) and wondering what, exactly, I could say about that that wouldn't involve me shrieking incoherently about how holy mother-freaking UGH the whole MILF/yummy-mummy/hot-mama/cougar thing is, like, really, and was just kind of at a loss. And [...]
So, Um, About That Tiger Woods Thing…
By on December 9, 2009 3 CommentsSo. Let's talk about the golf-club wielding elephant in the corner. Whenever I go to get my gossip fix, all I see is Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods, Tiiiiiiiigerrrrrrr Wooooods. Can I just say that I'm kind of shocked at the whole thing? Regardless of how much of the gossip is true (less than 50% is [...]
If You Liked It Then You Shoulda Put A Sling On It
By on December 9, 2009 3 CommentsMy first baby hated slings. HATED them. Slings, Baby Bjorns, carriers: if it strapped her against me, she didn't want to have anything to do with it. My second baby? LOVED the sling. My back still hurts from all the sling-loving. It probably would have hurt more if I'd been doing this sort of thing:
Festivus: Something For The Rest Of Us (Or, Oh Crap, Is It That Time Of Year Again?)
By on December 8, 2009 Leave a CommentConfession: I'm incredibly disorganized at the holidays, specifically the ones that hit in December. At this point my Christmas and Festivus cards aren't sent (or even purchased), gifts — even for those who live far away and require one month mailing windows — haven't been selected, oh hell, I don't even know who I'm buying [...]
Bad Rants: Since When Did Bad Become The New ‘Eww This Makes Me Squeamish?’
By on December 7, 2009 38 CommentsBad, Schmad: Sometimes, Celebrities – And Gossip – And Celebrity Gossip – Just Suck
By on December 4, 2009 Leave a CommentBlind gossip items are one of my guilty pleasures. Call it schadenfreude, call it taking perverse pleasure in knowing that celebrities are as messed up as we think they are, call it a faint, desperate hope that one day, there'll be an item that reads something like 'Desperate Blond Actress with lifestyle website has secret [...]
Not Your Mother’s Nativity Scene
By on December 4, 2009 9 CommentsChristmas time during my childhood was always kicked off by bringing out the nativity scene. My Mom would painstakingly set up her nativity sets, even going as far as to delay bringing in the little baby Jesus or wise men until the big day. We had multiple sets around the homestead, each invoking reverence and [...]
Bad Moms Like To Keep Them Guessing.
By on December 3, 2009 2 Comments
Have you ever been burned by a sanctimommy in play group, library, or anywhere that that attracts the particularly vicious alpha variety of mom? Have you ever received the continuous, harsh stink-eye or had totally passive-aggressive comments directed at you by strangers in customs, airports, passport offices, medical facility, line-up, or [fill in any place [...]
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